Hook.



PATENTED JUNE 23, 1903.

A. R. OTTERMAN.

HOOK.

APPLIOATION FILED Nov.. 11, 1902.

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UNITED STATES ARTHUR R. OTTERMAN, OF BRIDGE Patented rune 23, leus.

PATENT OFFICE.

VILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF VILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 731,809, dated June 23, 1903. Application filed November 11, 1902. Serial No. 130,839. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom. zit' may concern.-

Beit known that I, ARTHUR R. OTTERMAN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Bridgeville, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hooks, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings. y

\ This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in' hooks, such as are particularly adapted for and are used in connection with breast-yokes, neck-yokes, whifiietrees, doubletrees, and the like; and the primary object of the invention is to conring, or other device may be easily and quickly engaged and which will be securely struction, combination, and arrangement of g bletree, or the like,

held in engagement with cidental displacement.

Briefly described, my invention comprises a band or ferrule adapted to embrace the breast-yoke, neck-yoke, or whiflletree, douand which is provided with outwardly-extending lu'gs or cheekpieces, in which the hook is pivotally mountthe hook against aced. The outwardly-extending lugs or cheekpieces are provided with recesses into which it is necessary to force the link, ring,or other object Aconnected to the hook before said link, ring, or the like may be disengaged from the hook.

VHeretoforeand before my invention with devices forsimilar purposes the same have been liable to become disengaged as the breast-yoke, whiftletree, or the like was swung or Vibrated during its travel. It is the ob- `ject of my invention to obviate this danger or to at least reduce the same to the minimum; and the invention resides in the novel conparts, to be hereinafter more fully described',

and specifically pointed out in the claim.

` i In describing the invention in detail reference is had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and wherein like numerals of reference indicate like `parts throughout the several views, in whichi Figure 1 is a plan elevation showing my imof either the single seat 4, as

proved hook attached to a breast-yoke. Fig. 2 is a detached detail view showing the hook in the opened position. Fig. 3 is alike view showing a modified form of construction of hook. Fig. 4 is a detail side elevation of the same, showing the hook in the opened position. Fig. 5 is a View showing the app1ication of the hook to the end of a swingletree, breast-yoke, or other device.

My invention embodies a sleeve or ferrule provid ed with cheek-pieces inwhich is pivoted a hook member to be engaged by the ring, link, or the like. As seen in Figs. 1 and 2, the member which embraces the breast-yoke l consists of a sleeve or band 2, the ends of which project beyond the breast-yoke to form cheek-pieces 3, each of which is provided with a conical seat 4. The hook 5 is provided with a T-shaped end or head 6, which is journaled to the cheek-pieces 3, the latter being connected together by the bolt 7, passed therethrough and secured by the nut S. In Fig. 3 I show the band or sleeve 2 provided with cheek-pieces, though in this construction I provide two seats 9 and 10 in the ends of the cheek-pieces, and a hook ll is secured in the cheek-pieces by means of a bolt 12 and nut 14, this bolt and nut also acting as a lmeans for drawing the cheek-pieces together and binding the baud or sleeve 2 securely upon the neck-yoke. The seat 9, as seen in Fig. 4 of the drawings, is made of greater depth than the seat l0, that in casethe ring 15, as the drawings, hook 11 when as seen in Fig. 4, will still notV permit the disengagement of the ring 15, as the latter would not have sufficient clearance-space between the end of the hook and the projection 16 between the seats 9 and l0. The forming seen in Figs. 1 and 2, or of the seats 9 and l0, as seen in Figs.

seen in Fig. 1 of is engaged in the seat 9 the 3 and 4, forms the side tongues or extensions 17, which serve to retain the ring in engagement with the hook.

In Fig. 5 I show a slightly-modified form, the cheek-pieces 3 being formed integral with the ordinary ferrule 2', which is adapted to fit on the end of the swingletree, doubletree,

the function of this being swung back to its fullest extent,

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neck-yoke, breast-yoke, or the like. The hook l1 may be pivotally mounted between these cheek-pieces by means of the bolt 12, which also acts as the means for binding the ferrule upon the neck-yoke, or the hook provided with a T-shaped end may be employed and a separate bolt employed for binding the ferrule upon the yoke or other device.

By arranging the hook as described its free end will contact with the breast-yoke, and thereby limit its movement.

Having fully'described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination with the sleeve formed 

